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Blockchain and Media @The Battery SF #blockchainmedia

February 23, 2024November 22, 2019 by Pemo Theodore

Discussion: Ian Lee Managing Director IDEO CoLab Ventures; Paul Meed CEO/CoFounder Matter Music; Adam Ettinger Partner FisherBroyles LLP; Josh Pan CoFounder Matter Music; Gili Ovadia VP/Head Global Bus Dev Orbs; MODERATOR: Phil Jeudy Journalist Learn how the Blockchain can disrupt Music & Media! #blockchainmedia

Valerian Bennett, PopChest #fintechmedia

February 25, 2024November 13, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Valerian Bennett Founder/CEO PopChest. Mr. Bennett is a veteran television producer/editor and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He graduated from USC film and has worked on hit TV shows for E!, MTV, A&E, and many more. As a resident of Los Angeles and native to Silicon Valley, Valerian is perfectly suited to tackle the changing landscape of media distribution by employing cutting-edge blockchain technology. PopChest is the first community-supported video platform. No ads. No subscriptions. Using blockchain technology in our payment-enabled video player, PopChest let’s viewers send a few cents to support the artists they love while giving publishers the ability to make money in a whole new way.

Ryan X. Charles, CEO Yours #fintechmedia

February 25, 2024November 12, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Ryan X. Charles CEO/CoFounder Yours, a social media content sharing app with integrated smart contract micropayments and is the former cryptocurrency engineer of reddit. He has been in the bitcoin space since 2011, and besides reddit, has also worked as an engineer at BitPay, the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, and BitGo, the world’s largest bitcoin security provider. He is an ABD physics PhD at Washington University in St. Louis.

Laura Lopez, SuchWow Media #fintechmedia

February 25, 2024November 11, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Laura Lopez, Such Wow Media has been enthusiastically sharing the merits of Bitcoin since 2011. She has a Certified Bitcoin Professional certification from the Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium and also works in the entertainment industry as a television editor. She thinks cryptocurrency micropayments are the way forward for content creators and is building Such Wow Media with that in mind.

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FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Yash Patel is General Partner at Telstra Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that differentiates by generating revenue for its portfolio with strategic channel partners and customer relationships as well as by using data science to drive its investment process. Yash's focus is on the consumer side of fintech, Web3, crypto, esports, gaming, SaaS apps, ecommerce, and marketplace. Some of his standout fintech investments while at Telstra Ventures are companies like Super.com (Super Apps) and Playbook (next-gen wealthtech). Previously, Yash was the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Adknowledge and was part of the technology investment banking team at Jefferies & Company prior.